Environmental Partnership Examples
Conservation and Wildlife Habitat (Biodiversity) Protection
Playa Lakes Joint Venture (PLJV)
ConocoPhillips has been the lead corporate participant in the PLJV since its inception, providing in-kind support, employee expertise and more than $1 million in cash contributions.
ENV-COP-1
National Audubon Society
ConocoPhillips is a corporate sponsor of the National Audubon Society. Founded in 1905, the organization is named for John James Audubon (1785-1851), famed ornithologist, explorer and wildlife artist. The Society's mission is to preserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity. The organization’s national network of community-based nature centers and chapters, scientific and educational programs and advocacy on behalf of all sustaining important bird populations, engage millions of people of all ages and backgrounds in positive emulation experiences.
ENV-COP-2
George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center
ConocoPhillips has been a key financial sponsor of the Sutton Avian Research Center in Bartlesville, OK, since its inception in 1984.
ENV-COP-3
International Crane Foundation
ConocoPhillips is a supporter of International Crane Foundation (ICF), which is researching the migration of several species of cranes from their breeding grounds in the remote tundra of Yakutia in Siberia.
ENV-COP-5
International Migratory Bird Day
ConocoPhillips is the lead sponsor for International Migratory Bird Day (IMBD), the premier birding outreach program.
ENV-COP-6
The Nature Conservancy of Alaska
ConocoPhillips is a long-time supporter of the Nature Conservancy and recently donated $1 million to the Nature Conservancy of Alaska, making the largest corporate gift to conservation in Alaska's history.
ENV-COP-7
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
For more than a decade, ConocoPhillips and the Foundation have worked hand-in-hand to conserve birds and other wildlife, while educating children and adults about the natural world.
ENV-COP-8
SPIRIT of Conservation
One of ConocoPhillips’ particular environmental interests is conserving the natural habitat of migratory birds, an objective that has been among the company’s charitable priorities since the 1970s. Consequently, in 2005 ConocoPhillips founded the SPIRIT of Conservation Migratory Bird Program, an outgrowth of the company’s long-working relationship with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF). The program strives to protect, restore and improve the natural systems and habitats upon which migratory birds depend for survival, and to benefit declining bird species.
ENV-COP-9
Alberta Chamber of Resources Integrated Landscape Management (ILM) Program
In 2000, the Alberta Chamber of Resources (ACR), an association of resource industries, established the need for a new program to look for opportunities for industry to minimize their disturbance to the environment through improved collaboration.
ENV-COP-10
Forest Biodiversity Monitoring Program in Alberta, Canada
ConocoPhillips staff has been involved in the early work to initiate the Prototype Project and has committed $80,000 over 2003 and 2004 to this important work.
ENV-COP-12
Studying Biodiversity
ConocoPhillips is studying the biodiversity issue and plans to develop a strategy for providing a consistent way to protect and conserve biodiversity. One example can be found in the partnerships with diverse organizations the company is forming to protect the biodiversity of eastern Venezuela’s Gulf of Paria.
ENV-COP-18
Technology Development and Clean Fuel/Vehicle Partnerships
Subsea Mudlift Drilling System
The $50 million U.S. project is the largest single joint industry research project since the first drillship was tested almost 50 years ago.
ENV-COP-15
Controlled Hydrogen Fleet and Infrastructure Demonstration and Validation Project
ConocoPhillips is involved in an effort to further demonstrate and validate advancements in hydrogen-based transportation infrastructure.
ENV-COP-19
Freedom Car and Fuel Partnership
This collaborative effort consists of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), automakers and energy companies. This partnership provides a structure and process for dialog on hydrogen research, with a focus on pre-competitive, high-risk research that addresses technology breakthroughs needed to realize the National Hydrogen Energy Roadmap.
ENV-COP-20
Environmental Clean-up, Recycling and Restoration Programs
Accelerating Recovery of Well Sites to Forest Ecosystems
ConocoPhillips has initiated several partnerships with forest companies to replant trees on well sites identified for abandonment and reclamation. The company is instituting a new process to provide forest companies with early notification of sites coming up for reclamation, such that recovery to forest ecosystems is accelerated thereby reducing the duration of our “footprint” on the environment and lowering costs for both ConocoPhillips and the forest companies.
ENV-COP-17
Safe Handling of Chemicals
ConocoPhillips is an active partner in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s high production volume chemical testing program. The purpose of the program is to provide information on potential health and environmental impacts of chemicals produced in large volumes in the United States.
ENV-COP-21
Emergency and Spill Response Preparedness
Crisis Management and Emergency Response
ConocoPhillips is a member of the tier three oil spill response organizations that cover the regions of the world in which it operates. Membership in these cooperatives extends company access to resources both equipment and trained personnel – that can provide immediate emergency assistance.
ENV-COP-22
Educational Partnership Examples
Educational Materials and General Program Development
The Search for Solutions
Produced in conjunction with the National Science Teachers Association, the Search for Solutions video series explores the key elements of science - creativity, modeling, application, theory, and argument - and how these processes are practically applied.
ED-COP-2
National Coalitions and Programs for Teachers
The Keystone Center
ConocoPhillips sponsors middle school teachers each year to attend The Keystone Center's Key Issues Institute, a national teacher training institute with a focus on the environment and sustainability. The programs are designed primarily for middle school teachers. Participants spend one week during the summer using a framework to investigate issues and learning consensus-building tools to use in the classroom.
ED-COP-7
Project Learning Tree
Project Learning Tree is one of the most widely used environmental education programs in the United States and abroad. Over 500,000 educators have been trained to use PLT materials, and more than 25 million students have been reached in the United States, the Trust Territories, Canada, Sweden, Finland, Japan, Brazil and Mexico. ConocoPhillips is a long-time corporate sponsor.
ED-COP-1
Environmental (Marine and Wildlife), Health and Safety Education Programs
Taking Safety Education to the Community
ConocoPhillips’ concern for safety extends beyond its operations. In several ConocoPhillips businesses, employees have developed programs to educate the community on safety, such as the Fire Safety House, which in the past 14 years has taught more than 1 million schoolchildren how to protect themselves and their families from fire.
ED-COP-3
Farm Safety Day Camps
ConocoPhillips contributes to the Progressive Agriculture Foundation for farm safety day camps. Each year, more than 33,000 children who live on, work on or visit a farm are injured. The company’s contributions help sponsor day-long camps aimed at teaching children the proper safety techniques to use with agricultural chemicals, machinery, livestock and other animals, first aid, electrical hazards, water safety and firearm safety.
ED-COP-4
Tallgrass Prairie Preserve
ConocoPhillips is helping support The Nature Conservancy's efforts to restore the 38,000-acre Tallgrass Prairie in northeast Oklahoma. ConocoPhillips co-sponsored a three-part television series, "Oklahoma's Last Great Places."
ED-COP-5
Partners in Flight
Partners in Flight (PIF) is a cooperative effort involving partnerships among many non-governmental organizations, private industry and governmental agencies that emphasizes the conservation of birds not covered by existing conservation initiatives.
ED-COP-6
St. Andrews Prize for the Environment
ConocoPhillips’ North Sea business unit – together with Scotland’s University of St. Andrews – annually presents the St. Andrews Prize for the Environment, aimed at helping ordinary people from all walks of life identify innovative solutions to environmental problems. Launched in 1998, the annual competition is now recognized internationally and attracts entries from approximately 50 countries.
ED-COP-9
Community Partnership Examples
Community Engagement and Health Programs
Stakeholder Engagement through Community Advisory Councils
Thirteen of the company’s 14 company-operated refineries have established community advisory councils (CACs) that meet regularly and promote dialog between the local community and refinery management.
COM-COP-1
Engaging Concerned Citizens
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed with the Aboriginal Pipeline Group, which represents many of the local communities in the Mackenzie Valley. The memorandum ensures that the local people will benefit from the development of a natural gas pipeline through the area.
COM-COP-2
Development and Tradition Working Together
At the Alpine field on Alaska’s Western North Slope, ConocoPhillips operates the first oil production facility located and developed on Native Alaskan land. As part of the land access negotiations prior to development, ConocoPhillips and the community of Nuiqsut created a Surface Use Agreement that defines the responsibilities and obligations of both parties.
COM-COP-3
Community Safety
The company’s concern for safety extends to its employees’ families and the communities in which it operates, and many company locations have safety outreach programs.
COM-COP-10
Community Clean-up, Environmental Protection and Volunteer Programs
Gulf Coast Bird Observatory
The Gulf Coast Bird Observatory (GCBO) was created, which has expanded into a network of protected habitats across the Gulf Coast from Florida to Mexico. ConocoPhillips provides funding and ConocoPhillips people are deeply involved.
COM-COP-4
Addressing Deforestation in Indonesia
The ConocoPhillips Indonesia business unit challenged itself to implement a community development program that would be targeted specifically at economic empowerment objectives. In addition, the company and the Indonesian government were interested in addressing the serious issue of deforestation in Indonesia.
COM-COP-11
Strengthening Community Relationships
In 2001, the ConocoPhillips Humber refinery’s relationship with the neighboring community was tested when an explosion and fire in the saturate gas plant caused damage to area homes. Although the plant was quickly and safely shut down and no major injuries resulted, relationships with the local community were seriously affected. As a result of the incident, a community liaison team was formed to help residents repair property damage and to reassure them of the refinery’s commitment to safety.
COM-COP-12
Community Infrastructure, Development and Relief Programs
Addressing Community Needs
ConocoPhillips integrated sustainability into the project planning for a 2001 exploration appraisal project in the Orinoco Delta of Venezuela’s Gulf of Paria. The surrounding delta swamps are the homeland of the indigenous Warao peoples.
COM-COP-5
Learning Marketable Skills
Procuring uniforms for the employees of ConocoPhillips’ Matak Island operations was a costly and complicated effort. The uniforms were made in Jakarta – two and a half hours away by plane. A tailor had to be flown in to take measurements, and ill-fitting uniforms had to be returned to Jakarta for tailoring. ConocoPhillips and the Matak community solved this problem through a tailoring training program for the Matak women of Payaklaman, the village closest to the company’s base.
COM-COP-6
Assistance for the Motherless Babies Home in Lagos
The ConocoPhillips Nigeria business unit has focused its community efforts on “the needs of children, the future of Nigeria” for the sustainable provision of essential basic infrastructure and support to less privileged children in society, to ensure a better future for the country. For example, ConocoPhillips responded to the Nigerian government’s request for assistance for the Motherless Babies Home in Lagos.
COM-COP-13
Human Rights, Diversity, Minority Business and Youth Support Programs
Community Input
ConocoPhillips’ businesses strive to incorporate community input into the process of deciding where company contributions can be most valuable. One project that resulted from such consultation was the Baku Exhibition and Sale of Arts and Handicrafts of Azeri disabled artists.
COM-COP-14